Revisiting the 1995 Redwoods Footage

Editor’s Note: This is a post by Bigfoot Evidence contributor Vicki W.

Although this footage has been around for a long time, it's pretty interesting despite being blurry (if it's a Bigfoot, it has to be blurry, right?). In the original video it's difficult to see anything, however the enhanced version shows a definite silhouette of a large, upright figure. It was shot by Craig Miller back in 1995. Originally called the "Playmate Footage", Dr. Jeff Meldrum suggested a name change, for obvious reasons. (The crew had been filming Playboy Playmate Anna Marie Goddard for a Playboy TV special.)

Here's the story behind the film via Bigfoot Encounters:

The crew of Adventures television were shooting an episode featuring a drive up the California coast highway in August 1995. The fifth and final day of shooting was in a redwood forest near Cresent City, in Del Norte County, California. After finishing, the camera crew were breaking down the equipment and the other 5 were relaxing by driving around through the redwoods and partying. The music was up, they were goofing off for the hi-8 camera that they used for behind-the-scenes shots and just to generally document the trip when the betacam wasn't on. They had turned onto a narrow side road and realized there was nowhere to turn around. It was getting dark and had started to rain and they were finding it rather difficult to back the 34 ft. RV out.

At some point the driver spotted what he thought was a bear on the road about thirty-five yards ahead. Their first thought was wouldn't it to great to have some wildlife footage to include it the episode. But as the object walked at an angle across the road and away from them bipedally, arms swinging, they began to question whether it was a bear. They drove forward to within about 5 yards of it, when it retreated back across the road in the direction it had come, directly in front of the RV, the headlights illuminating it up to about the waist. It appears a little startled or intimidated by the RV and lights, but continues across the road to disappear behind a large redwood. Two of the witnesses immediately ran outside to try to get more footage but it was too dark and the forest was extremely dense.

What one sees on the video is a large (about 7.5 ft. tall) somewhat shaggy male "Sasquatch", that bears a striking resemblence to the subject of the Patterson-Gimlin film. In fact, I have juxtaposed frames from both in which the subjects are in similar poses and the similarity in posture, shape of head, configuration of neck and shoulders, proportions of torso and limbs, et., is very clear.

There are a number of anatomical features suggested on the video that are very intriguing -- head shape and position, genitalia (?), muscle definition and action, foot and ankle anatomy, and more. These observations alone are enough to cause me to give the video serious consideration. I have arranged for two independent enhancements of the video, giving particular scrutiny to the points I mentioned. There is a frame that should give some detail of facial features as well. We will have the results in the near future. I have also been at the site, personally interviewed one of the witnesses, and read the testimonies of the others. So far nothing to suggest any lack of credibility in their account. ...Jeff Meldrum.

The 1995 Redwoods Footage

Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park

Enhanced (Loop)

Read complete story at www.bigfootencounters.com